David SvobodaDavid Svoboda is an associate professor at the Department of visual computing of the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He completed his PhD in computer science with a thesis on segmentation of volumetric histopathologial images. He spent a half-year research visit at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, in the signal processing group, where he focused on the problems on edge detection using the statistics-based filtering. Since 2006, he has been with the Centre for Biomedical Image Analysis at Masaryk University. His current research fields include the manipulation of huge image data and the generation of synthetic microscopy image data, both static and time-lapse sequences. Read More Read Less